MARTINEZ -- A transgender student will no longer face a battery charge for a fight caught on video at Hercules High School last year, officials decided last week.

Contra Costa Judge Thomas M. Maddock dropped the misdemeanor charge May 1 after determining that 16-year-old Jewlyes Gutierrez had successfully completed a conflict resolution program known as restorative justice, an alternative granted by the court in February as a way for the teenager to deal with the battery charge.

The Transgender Law Center, RYSE Youth Center of Richmond and the Rainbow Community Center, organizations who rallied around Jewlyes after she was charged, issued a joint statement on Tuesday applauding the decision to drop the charge.

The November fight attracted national attention, an online petition with more than 200,000 signatures, and spotlighted problems of bullying and harassment on the Hercules campus -- just two months after a federal report found rampant sexual harassment in the West Contra Costa school district.

Jewlyes said she reported the bullying to an administrator in the days before the fight, but the bully was not punished.

As part of the conflict resolution program, Jewlyes said she worked out her problems with one of the girls and now has closure.

"I can finally breathe. I can finally relax," she said. "Going to court is scary, you don't know what is going to happen. It was very nerve-racking."